[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by alocky

Lots of blue now! What did you end up doing to bring it out?
Cheers,
Andrew

Andrew, I started from scratch and reprocessed taking care with colour balance.

Originally Posted by jase

The repro looks great Geoff. A major improvement. As Robin notes, it does look like there is more data in there that can be tweaked further. Don't be afraid to push the data hard at least in the beginning so that you know what you've got to work with. You can then determine the strengths/weaknesses of the image and work on emphasising the good points and suppressing the bad. Colour looks spot on in the repro. I'd perhaps raise the black point more which will give provide greater colour saturation. If so desired, a light application of a high pass filter around 1.8 pixels will bring out the dark dust lanes more along with making the HII regions pop - needs to be masked to protect the stars. There is probably similar routines in PI. Overall a great result. More please.

Thanks Jase, I'll try out the high Pass filter

Originally Posted by pvelez

Looks good

PI is great once you get the hang of it

I find when I push saturation that the stars acquire a yellow cast - you seem to have avoided this though there are quite a few orange ones in there.

Pete

Thanks Pete, I'm much happier with the repo

Originally Posted by Ross G

Great looking galaxy photo Geoff.

The stronger the colour the better.

Ross.

Thanks Ross, I do like the stronger colour as well